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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsANONYMOUS RELEASES SIXTY HOURS OF NYPD FOOTAGE FROM RAID on OCCUPY WALL STREET!
Anonymous Releases Sixty Hours of NYPD Footage From Occupy Wall Street RaidBy: Kevin Gosztola Monday September 24, 2012 3:23 pm
Members of the hacktivist group Anonymous have released sixty hours of footage of the raid by the New York Police Department against Occupy Wall Street on November 15, 2011. The footage posted is from the NYPDs Technical Assistance Research Unit (TARU), a surveillance unit that is regularly present at political demonstrations to film police actions. It was posted as a torrent for download late in the evening on September 23, 2012. A tiny sample of the footage, including a statement read by a member of Anonymous, was posted on YouTube.
The computerized voice in the video begins, On November 15, 2011, the NYPD surrounded Zuccotti Park and proceeded to forcefully dismantle the Occupy Wall Street encampment. As part of this effort, the authorities made all media leave this scene and the only images of what happened came from livestreamer who stayed in the center of the park until his arrest and one other citizen journalist who kept filming on his camera and managed to smuggle his footage after the arrest zone. It goes on to say a trove of video shot by the NYPD itself from fourteen different angles, including surveillance cameras, is being released.
The statement in the video also suggests the NYPD tampered with videos in the mini-archive of footage released to cover up atrocities or acts of police brutality committed. The voice claims a lot of this police footage has been edited, some may say even tampered with to remove the most damning incidents. It adds there are obvious edits, which makes the tampering apparent but, in total, there is enough footage here to paint a picture of what really happened when the cameras left.
To use a term writer Glenn Greenwald has used, this act of forcible radical transparency was couched as a response to the NYPDs decision to deny freedom of the press during the raid. The right people have to view this footage, according to Anonymous, stems from the fact that the police would not let people film or record what was unfolding the day of the raid so, in order for the public to see the truth of what happened, obtaining and releasing the NYPDs own footage had to be done for the sake of freedom and liberty.
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ANONYMOUS RELEASES SIXTY HOURS OF NYPD FOOTAGE FROM RAID on OCCUPY WALL STREET! (Original Post)
KoKo
Sep 2012
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Download instructions are available in a post in the Activism/Occupy Underground subforum.
Fire Walk With Me
Sep 2012
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Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)1. Download instructions are available in a post in the Activism/Occupy Underground subforum.
Thank you Anonymous. Fuck you NYPD and Bloomberg.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)2. Transcript?
Thanks...!
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)3. Here is the link to the post in the Occupy Underground subforum
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)9. Thanks, I was gone for a while...
Agony
(2,605 posts)6. thx fer the info
information is power
Response to KoKo (Original post)
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Whovian
(2,866 posts)7. Heartbreaking. I can't think of another city in the world where a crowd that size would
just lay down and take it like that. It was as if the Borg had landed with the "resistance is futile" message.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)8. It was a peaceful demonstration....so police violence wasn't expected..
There are always infiltrators into any demonstration which provoke police ...but Bloomberg/Wall Street went out of their way to do a police action to show power...
snot
(10,520 posts)10. Did you write the text, or are you quoting from an article by Kevin Gosztola or someone else?
If you didn't write it, can you pls provide a link? Thanks!